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[00:00:00] there would be no hope that people who would like to
[00:00:03] help Ukraine would ever have the opportunity to come to power. Here's
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[00:00:11] Let's talk a little more about how we actually voted in
[00:00:15] 2019, how now those for whom we voted
[00:00:19] are not voting today, even going on a month's
[00:00:22] vacation in the middle of a huge
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[00:06:49] Well, we are back, and I will, you know, continue
[00:06:52] the topic of certain election results
[00:06:56] of 2019, people's
[00:06:58] deputies whom we elected in 2019, a distant pre-war
[00:07:02] 2019, who have already , in principle, for some
[00:07:06] two and a half years exceeded their
[00:07:09] powers, decided to go on...
[00:07:12] vacation for 26 days. Perhaps these are very important
[00:07:16] vacations, perhaps they will travel around constituencies and meet with
[00:07:19] voters, perhaps they will work in committees, perhaps they have some other
[00:07:23] urgent matters, they will be engaged in volunteering, I don't know
[00:07:26] , whatever, but all this happens against the background of the fact that we have
[00:07:30] a terrible budget crisis,
[00:07:33] a cosmic deficit, as Volodymyr
[00:07:36] Zelensky said, the Minister of Finance warns that
[00:07:39] budget payments may be disrupted and...
[00:07:42] Well, it's just such a story, and it's because
[00:07:45] we disrupted the vote on several
[00:07:49] reforms that are primarily needed by Ukraine, not Europe, but
[00:07:53] because of which Europe has now blocked part of this
[00:07:56] loan of 90 billion, and this is about an amount of approximately
[00:08:00] 27 billion euros,
[00:08:03] and I look at this situation from different angles, I have
[00:08:07] such a feeling that we are simply in some, I don't know, surreal
[00:08:10] play, this is some theater... of the absurd, UNESCO,
[00:08:14] Beckett, well, I just don't understand how this is fundamentally possible, and
[00:08:18] and most importantly, what strikes me is some Olympic calm, people
[00:08:21] don't go out to the streets, on central
[00:08:25] channels, or whatever it's called, telethon, everything
[00:08:27] is calm, some good news about our offensives,
[00:08:31] counter-offensives, President Zelensky
[00:08:33] smiles, offers a good idea to pay
[00:08:37] us, for example, in advance from next year's money
[00:08:41] to Europeans.
[00:08:45] I don't understand this, well, you perfectly understand that the parliament would hardly
[00:08:48] go on vacation if there was no understanding between the leadership
[00:08:52] of the parliament and the leadership of the president's office, right, between the president and
[00:08:55] the speaker,
[00:08:58] so, here there is another surreal situation, that the president on the one
[00:09:02] hand talks about financial problems also
[00:09:06] and about the fact that the parliament does not adopt European integration
[00:09:09] laws, and on the other hand.
[00:09:13] does not influence these vacation decisions, or on the contrary,
[00:09:16] does influence, because we perfectly
[00:09:19] understand that neither the ruling
[00:09:23] majority,
[00:09:26] nor the speaker of the parliament, nor the head of the Servant of the
[00:09:30] People faction in the parliament, are subjective from the point of view of their relations
[00:09:34] with the head of state, we generally say that recently
[00:09:38] the head of the Servant of the People party faction in
[00:09:42] the parliament gained huge
[00:09:45] authority in the president's office,
[00:09:48] some compare him to the influence of Andriy
[00:09:51] Yermak, but I don't know how appropriate this comparison is at all, because
[00:09:55] I always said that in personalistic regimes, and we live in
[00:09:58] a personalistic regime, the influence of a favorite
[00:10:02] is determined by the head of the personalistic regime himself, not
[00:10:06] the favorite,
[00:10:09] and here I have a quite simple question:
[00:10:12] Perhaps, on the one hand, there is
[00:10:15] a desire to get money, on the other hand, there is
[00:10:18] an unwillingness,
[00:10:21] and we are living in this situation.
[00:10:25] Listen, I have repeatedly explained that all the laws that
[00:10:28] Europeans demand from us contradict the logic
[00:10:31] of the personalistic post-Soviet regime, which has been built
[00:10:35] since 2019
[00:10:36] in our country,
[00:10:40] because both the head of state and the people associated with him
[00:10:43] have an absolutely Soviet view of power, these are
[00:10:47] Soviet people, it is very strange that they turned out to be
[00:10:50] so Soviet at such an age, but on the other
[00:10:54] hand, they... grew up when this Soviet
[00:10:58] legacy in a large part of Ukraine, in a large part
[00:11:02] of families, was not overcome, they were raised as Soviet
[00:11:05] people, with Soviet ideas about what
[00:11:08] power is and what control is,
[00:11:11] so it's not surprising that Volodymyr Zelensky has approximately the same
[00:11:14] idea of power as Leonid Kuchma,
[00:11:17] say, because these are actually people of the same, I would say,
[00:11:20] stratum,
[00:11:23] Kuchma just lived in the Soviet Union,
[00:11:27] environment,
[00:11:31] and he will not be different, because what
[00:11:34] is given to you, what is laid down in you during your upbringing, you will not be
[00:11:38] able to change,
[00:11:42] you see people who at 20-30 years
[00:11:45] old move to Western countries, yes, they
[00:11:49] came from the Soviet Union, here's a good
[00:11:51] example, to the United States.
[00:11:57] to European countries, to
[00:12:00] Israel,
[00:12:03] and look what happened to many of them there, not all of them, but
[00:12:06] many of them, they remained absolutely Soviet
[00:12:10] people, with a Soviet attitude to life, for example, Brighton Beach, mm-hmm,
[00:12:13] their whole idea of the West was a larger quantity of sausage, freedom,
[00:12:17] money, freedom, I would even say , conditionally speaking, no
[00:12:20] persecution,
[00:12:24] no persecution. Perhaps, it's not even freedom,
[00:12:27] mm-hmm, these people, even
[00:12:30] after decades in Western societies, consider
[00:12:34] the values of these Western societies to be somehow
[00:12:36] wacky,
[00:12:40] not that they don't want to integrate, not because they can't, but because they don't want to, because
[00:12:44] they think it's impossible to integrate into such a thing, well,
[00:12:47] this is, by the way, what happens to people who live, conditionally speaking, this often
[00:12:51] happens with families from Manhattan, very often it happens with Islamic
[00:12:55] families who move, for example, to European societies or
[00:12:59] American societies, and of course, well, listen, families from Islamic countries
[00:13:02] at least have an excuse, they have faith, but these people don't believe
[00:13:06] in anything except 200 grams of Dutch cheese and
[00:13:10] 300 grams of Odesa sausage, that's the
[00:13:13] point, it seemed they should have been more flexible, but no, this
[00:13:17] sausage suits them perfectly as the meaning of life,
[00:13:20] it can just be this sausage, that sausage, or it can be a billion
[00:13:23] dollars, it... it doesn't matter, it doesn't affect a person
[00:13:26] in any way,
[00:13:30] well, the same thing, of course, happens with people who remain at home with their
[00:13:34] Soviet upbringing, but get incredible opportunities
[00:13:38] to realize their principles when
[00:13:41] they come to power, what do you expect from them? Uh-huh,
[00:13:44] well, no one ever denied that their rules
[00:13:48] of life are correct, moreover, for these rules of life, the vast majority
[00:13:50] of all compatriots entrusted them with positions, so
[00:13:54] why should they think that they are mistaken in something,
[00:13:58] of course, especially for a person who has never been involved
[00:14:02] in politics, being elected head of state, a multi-million
[00:14:05] one, is a displacement into a non-existent world,
[00:14:08] in which this person will be isolated from reality until the last
[00:14:12] day of their powers, and it is unknown whether they will get out of this non-existent
[00:14:16] world after their presidency ends,
[00:14:19] президентства,
[00:14:21] that's all, that's why I always say: I would like
[00:14:25] to see the parliament being a subject, the parliament is not
[00:14:28] a subject,
[00:14:30] you should be asking yourselves why people don't
[00:14:34] take to the streets, and what is happening with the deputies themselves,
[00:14:37] mm-hmm, they know that Ukraine
[00:14:40] is threatened to fall into
[00:14:44] an economic abyss, they can realize that the people in
[00:14:47] the residence of the President of Ukraine are incompetent in solving
[00:14:50] the problems of the state's survival, they are citizens of this
[00:14:53] state. They should think about what will happen to them
[00:14:56] themselves,
[00:14:59] if the state ceases
[00:15:01] to exist,
[00:15:05] do they think that Putin will gather them for a session of the Verkhovna Rada, or did they
[00:15:08] solemnly adopt an act on the transformation of Ukraine into the Ukrainian
[00:15:12] ASSR, as part of the Russian Federation, and
[00:15:15] will Putin need them, this is not a legitimate parliament, the legitimate one
[00:15:18] was destroyed in 2014
[00:15:21] by the uprising of nationalists, we know who is legitimate here.
[00:15:25] Derkach Zaliynikov, so let them not hope,
[00:15:29] they will be hanged by their arms and legs on
[00:15:31] Khreshchatyk.
[00:15:37] This somehow doesn't concern them at all, that's strange,
[00:15:40] them themselves, we're not talking about people, people may not
[00:15:44] understand something, of course, the vast majority of Ukrainian voters
[00:15:47] still don't understand where they are and the extent of the outcry, they don't understand,
[00:15:51] but they are not obliged to, a person generally, of course, solves
[00:15:55] their own tasks, they work, they defend the country, they pay
[00:15:58] taxes, they elect these deputies so that they understand this, not so that
[00:16:02] she sits every day in front of the TV or
[00:16:05] this.
[00:16:08] computer and thought about how to save
[00:16:09] the country, she does everything possible or does not
[00:16:13] do, as a citizen,
[00:16:17] and the deputies, ministers,
[00:16:19] president should manage, if there is a problem of financial
[00:16:22] catastrophe, they should solve it, and not rest from their
[00:16:25] work,
[00:16:28] that's all, and therefore there is indeed a serious question with this subjectivity
[00:16:32] of these deputies,
[00:16:34] it was not people who should have gathered
[00:16:38] in the streets, logically, and asked where the parliament was, it was parliamentarians who should have
[00:16:42] gathered in front of
[00:16:45] the closed parliament, mm-hmm, and asked
[00:16:49] the speaker why it was closed, and if the speaker cannot give such an answer
[00:16:52] or informs them that some official from the office decided so to re-elect
[00:16:56] this speaker and finally elect as head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine a person who can
[00:17:00] actually restore the parliament's subjectivity, who will not go
[00:17:03] to the president's office and talk
[00:17:06] with... officials about how the parliament should work, who will remember that this is
[00:17:10] a parliamentary-presidential republic, in which the powers of the head of state are significantly
[00:17:14] limited.
[00:17:17] Well, we currently have, of course, this
[00:17:21] martial law, which greatly increases the powers of
[00:17:24] the president. For example, the president this week
[00:17:27] appointed Anton Kovalsky, who
[00:17:30] was, I believe, in
[00:17:33] Khmelnytskyi or Vinnytsia region, as acting
[00:17:37] prosecutor general, and I specifically checked, and the law,
[00:17:40] the provisions of the law on martial law, allow
[00:17:43] the president in emergency situations to simply appoint by his decree
[00:17:46] anyone who has a legal education, or who meets
[00:17:50] professional requirements, as temporary acting prosecutor general, but this is a very important
[00:17:54] appointment, everyone
[00:17:57] was waiting for it, because it was supposed to be a signal
[00:18:01] of how the president would actually get out of this situation of the Carthage
[00:18:05] or Carthaginian scandal, when... it turned out that the entire
[00:18:08] top leadership was corrupt, not corrupt, that's not the word, rather
[00:18:12] connected with crime, which is
[00:18:15] organized, with organized crime, the top leadership
[00:18:18] of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine is not just connected with organized crime,
[00:18:22] it is organized crime, judging by everything, and
[00:18:26] it is, this organized crime is connected
[00:18:28] with it,
[00:18:30] and here it was very important how Zelensky would act, many
[00:18:34] hoped that he would appoint this competition, there was a bill...
[00:18:37] it was already ready to be voted on for
[00:18:41] this competition, an independent selection, it would have been a very good
[00:18:44] signal for Western partners for
[00:18:46] society, I don't
[00:18:48] know,
[00:18:51] I think Zelensky generally believes that what he told the Prosecutor General
[00:18:55] to resign and did not support him when the Prosecutor General made
[00:18:59] accusations against the leadership of NABU, this is already
[00:19:02] a huge success from the point
[00:19:05] of view of his dialogue with... society,
[00:19:08] you see, and the fact that he has to consult about candidates
[00:19:11] with society, it seems to me,
[00:19:14] in the president's understanding of how he should behave in critical
[00:19:18] situations,
[00:19:20] that's the problem, so you, again, impose
[00:19:24] your ideas on the president about how power should function, and the president
[00:19:27] believes, and a huge number of people believe who support
[00:19:31] the president, that power should be concentrated in one hand, especially
[00:19:34] during martial law, and not invent all these... competitions, all these conversations, because
[00:19:38] he knows better, and if
[00:19:41] he doesn't know better, he still has to work with this prosecutor, and this is a critical
[00:19:44] situation, so let him do what is necessary, and if
[00:19:48] last time it was wrong, well, a mistake, we'll fix it, and
[00:19:51] last time it wasn't even, even more wrong, well, a mistake
[00:19:54] he doesn't learn, and he doesn't learn, and is there
[00:19:58] some critical number, well, that is of mistakes, well, there, that are permissible, well,
[00:20:01] there, well, two or three mistakes, I remember too, I don't know, the coach of the French
[00:20:05] national team, when they... won then, I don't remember in what year, in
[00:20:09] 98, and he said:
[00:20:12] our, our, our advantage is that we always have the right to make a mistake
[00:20:16] in the team, well, okay, but how many times can the president of a warring
[00:20:20] state make a mistake? As many as he wants, because
[00:20:24] if I voted for this president, it will be very difficult for me
[00:20:27] to tell myself that I made a mistake, mm-hmm, people
[00:20:30] who tell themselves that I made
[00:20:33] a mistake,
[00:20:37] as a rule, are not the
[00:20:39] majority among the electorate,
[00:20:41] so a person who has already voted for something, and then got such
[00:20:45] a result, will never admit their own mistakes, there are some
[00:20:48] people who say, well... who at most can say, we didn't vote
[00:20:52] for Zelensky, but we voted against Poroshenko, remember
[00:20:56] that idea, well, there may be more
[00:20:59] such people, maybe they voted against the war, many
[00:21:03] people, so no, people will never say that, they don't say that they voted against
[00:21:06] the war, how will they say that they voted against
[00:21:10] the war, and why did the war happen then, well, they are not
[00:21:14] to blame Zelensky, no,
[00:21:18] and now they, these people are now accusing Zelensky of exactly
[00:21:22] the same thing they accused Poroshenko of, that he profits from the war and does not
[00:21:25] want the war to end. No, these are exactly such people, they exist, they are not the majority
[00:21:29] just. These are exactly such people. These are, these
[00:21:33] are people who, by the way,
[00:21:35] again, we don't know how many of them were in this Zelensky electorate, but they voted not for
[00:21:39] Zelensky, but for Putin. And it's very easy to calculate.
[00:21:43] These are the very people who say that Zelensky now does not want to stop
[00:21:46] the war. These are exactly these people. And their
[00:21:50] children, don't forget that this is already happening, new
[00:21:54] people are already appearing who did not take part in the voting in 2019,
[00:21:57] who believe that the war is happening because
[00:22:01] the Ukrainian authorities do not want to negotiate peace, Poroshenko did not
[00:22:05] want to negotiate, mm-hmm, they elected
[00:22:08] Zelensky to negotiate, and Zelensky deceived them, instead of
[00:22:12] negotiating peace with Putin, he profits from
[00:22:15] the war, and these people will never believe that
[00:22:19] Zelensky's desire... to continue or end the war, nothing
[00:22:22] changes, because even if Zelensky says today that
[00:22:25] he is ready to end the war,
[00:22:29] even if Zelensky says that he gives Putin the territories of Donetsk and Luhansk
[00:22:32] regions, the war will not only not end, but will intensify with
[00:22:35] new force, because the Russians will have more
[00:22:39] opportunities to launch missiles and drones from a shorter distance, there will be
[00:22:42] more opportunities to use ballistic missiles, there will be
[00:22:45] more opportunities to advance, and Russian...
[00:22:49] cold-bloodedness will come to their own home, they will be shot,
[00:22:50] they will be buried in
[00:22:53] some mass
[00:22:56] grave like the one in Bucha, they will never believe this until
[00:23:00] they find themselves in this mass
[00:23:02] grave, but such people are not
[00:23:05] the majority,
[00:23:08] but the majority of people who believe that they voted correctly and that Zelensky is doing
[00:23:12] everything correctly, and they don't bother with some
[00:23:16] attorney generals, will tell you: these are simply people who
[00:23:19] betrayed the president and the country,
[00:23:22] the president gave them such trust, such trust, and how did
[00:23:26] they treat it,
[00:23:28] well, don't forget that most of these people lack causal
[00:23:32] connections, well, okay, and any politician can use this, well,
[00:23:36] but if tomorrow, if it happens,
[00:23:39] tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, really, for example, delays in
[00:23:42] budget payments or pensions begin, this depends
[00:23:46] entirely now on Western support, will these people then
[00:23:50] make some causal connections after all, well,
[00:23:53] such very, I don't know, I don't know, maybe
[00:23:56] there will be no delays at all, maybe money printing will start, inflation
[00:24:00] will start, it could be that, and these people will simply
[00:24:03] notice that prices have increased, well, war, what's wrong, the president
[00:24:07] just said that there is not even enough money for construction, for
[00:24:10] drone production, well, that is, it's
[00:24:14] just I don't know, well, there should be some
[00:24:17] reaction, you are the supreme commander-in-chief, okay. And you say: well, the deputies
[00:24:21] didn't vote, now we don't have enough money for drone
[00:24:25] production, at the same time showing a video of us launching drones that are allegedly
[00:24:28] intercepting Russian jet drones, and
[00:24:32] then the deputies went on vacation, I still can't
[00:24:36] put it all together, it's difficult for me, I look at what
[00:24:39] kind of, this is just the same lack of causal
[00:24:43] connection, but if
[00:24:46] we need to scale up drone production.
[00:24:50] And we don't have money for drones, how do we scale it up, probably we need to
[00:24:54] adopt some laws that will unfreeze the provision of
[00:24:57] money to us, but we cannot adopt these laws, because this will limit our power, how
[00:25:00] to do it, no way, we will sit and wait, it will limit our
[00:25:04] power, yes, because I just look at what law, and our power is more important than your
[00:25:07] drones,
[00:25:10] that's all, okay, this is a rather sad explanation, a sad
[00:25:14] explanation, we still have the same Verkhovna Rada, which exists, I
[00:25:17] understand that there are people... in the country, well, for example, journalists,
[00:25:21] especially investigators who are involved in this, and from time to time
[00:25:25] they gather somewhere together, for example, this is not the first time
[00:25:28] they gather around a round table, journalists
[00:25:31] of Ukrainian Pravda, Inna Vedernikova, editor
[00:25:35] of this, from Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, and they again
[00:25:39] bring up the topic of elections, and I, I see more and more often, they
[00:25:42] write that we understand that elections are impossible, but
[00:25:46] the situation is impossible, because management is generally degrading
[00:25:50] in a warring country, and we need to find a way out, maybe elections are not
[00:25:54] such a bad result, maybe we can find some
[00:25:57] safeguards, bypass some security issues, and
[00:26:01] President Zelensky, by the way, who has not held a briefing for a year and a half,
[00:26:04] for Ukrainian journalists for a year and a half, for a year and a half, I was watching the idiocy that Trump
[00:26:07] said again at the next briefing, and again
[00:26:11] forbids CNN and someone else from attending those briefings,
[00:26:15] but at the same time he holds those briefings almost every day, and we have
[00:26:18] a year and a half, and at the same time,
[00:26:21] yes, he gives an interview on
[00:26:25] CBS and there the journalist asks him about the elections, and he says: "tomorrow,
[00:26:28] it's just that by law it's not possible... maybe how to solve security problems,
[00:26:32] but I always think, is the question about security problems, or
[00:26:35] is the question, why are you generally sure that as a result of the elections someone will come, well, I don't know,
[00:26:39] more competent, better, not so
[00:26:43] corrupt,
[00:26:44] even if, by the way, a good
[00:26:47] question, first of all, what elections, presidential or
[00:26:50] parliamentary, should be, should have been
[00:26:53] parliamentary, but they say that they are simply impossible, and presidential elections are easier to organize,
[00:26:56] well, okay, so let's imagine that some president,
[00:27:00] we don't know who it will be, let's imagine
[00:27:04] that under martial law it could be Zelensky again, and he will work with
[00:27:08] the same parliament, and what will we get,
[00:27:11] just imagine, we expect
[00:27:14] for ratings for five years, mm-hmm,
[00:27:18] well, you know, actually, Zelensky has such a level of trust, Zaluzhnyi has such
[00:27:21] a level of trust, Budanov has such a level of trust, Fedorov has such a level of trust,
[00:27:25] good, but tell me, are you sure that under
[00:27:29] martial law, if presidential
[00:27:32] elections are held, all these people will run,
[00:27:35] or if they run, they will not be
[00:27:37] accused of betraying
[00:27:40] the state in a difficult moment, instead of performing their important
[00:27:44] duties as the head
[00:27:47] of the office, sent to Great Britain,
[00:27:51] left public service
[00:27:51] for the sake of fighting for power,
[00:27:55] and they will tell you this on TV. How will you turn off the telethon during the presidential elections,
[00:27:58] and how?
[00:28:00] Well, what chances does any
[00:28:04] alternative candidate for president,
[00:28:06] even with a high
[00:28:09] rating, have to compete with the incumbent
[00:28:12] president in the information field, you know?
[00:28:16] The president will appear every day to talk about interceptor
[00:28:20] drones,
[00:28:22] about some
[00:28:24] thousands. or 500 UAH, we see that even
[00:28:27] Trump is doing this now, and he promises 500 dollars to everyone,
[00:28:30] mm-hmm, well, what will
[00:28:34] the alternative candidates do, if they do anything at all,
[00:28:37] if there will be
[00:28:40] any at all? Well, these are the questions, I absolutely
[00:28:44] assume that elections during martial law are most likely a plebiscite of confidence
[00:28:46] in the incumbent president.
[00:28:50] And his, well, I'm not talking about anything else,
[00:28:53] with all Zaluzhnyi's ratings, what will Zaluzhnyi promise
[00:28:57] to citizens, more blood, sweat and tears or
[00:29:00] peace? Blood, sweat and
[00:29:03] tears, obviously, well, because, and if the commander-in-chief
[00:29:07] of the armed forces promises peace, how much trust is
[00:29:10] there in him? Well, yes,
[00:29:13] how ready will citizens be to vote
[00:29:16] for this blood and tears? Maybe they will vote
[00:29:20] for a candidate who will tell them that he will... agree with
[00:29:22] Putin, just a candidate who is not in the ratings, but
[00:29:25] who will appear and say, listen, all these
[00:29:28] people, Zelensky, Zaluzhnyi, Budanov - this is the party
[00:29:32] of war, they want war, because they profit from it, make a career,
[00:29:35] they organize sabotage, this is what they can do, and I am a candidate of peace, I will agree
[00:29:39] with Putin, and by the way, Putin will say, there is one good
[00:29:41] candidate, maybe we would agree with him,
[00:29:45] because all
[00:29:47] those want... war, and we want peace,
[00:29:51] and in this dictatorship of Zelensky, who does not
[00:29:54] hold elections, even such an anti-war person cannot win
[00:29:58] the elections, what a horror?
[00:30:01] Here are all your elections, well, we
[00:30:05] and I think that there is no talk about it now, I
[00:30:08] generally don't understand why we always talk about elections,
[00:30:12] it seems to me, I know a thousand other ways to change power, if there was a
[00:30:15] desire in society to change it, well... the shortest and
[00:30:18] incorrect and most constitutional - is just the subjectivity of parliament, I
[00:30:21] understand, but, of course, what
[00:30:23] we are always talking about,
[00:30:26] look, this week there was an idea to vote
[00:30:29] for just
[00:30:33] an appeal to the president, because only
[00:30:36] the president can appoint those decisions with his decrees, in order to
[00:30:40] deprive Potap.
[00:30:43] за всього-навсього звернення до
[00:30:46] президента, бо тільки президент може призначати
[00:30:50] ті рішення своїми указами, щоби позбавити
[00:30:53] потапа.